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Custom websites and web systems built to do real work.

Loud Sky Media designs and builds websites that generate opportunities, streamlines operations, connects the tools your business already uses, and handles the technical complexity that templates and off-the-shelf solutions just can't.

Currently available for select direct projects, subcontract work, overflow development, and white-label engagements.

More than brochure websites

What I actually build

Custom websites & WordPress systems

Custom themes, custom plugins, maintainable content architecture, and complex business workflows.

Web applications & platforms

Dashboards, portals, multi-role systems, SaaS interfaces, and database-backed operational tools.

Integrations & automation

APIs, CRMs, communications, data synchronization, background jobs, and workflow automation.

AI-enhanced systems

AI agents, voice/SMS workflows, content/data automation, and AI-assisted internal tools.

Recent Work

Polished on the surface. Serious systems underneath.

These examples pair public-facing design with the internal dashboards, forms, workflows, directories, and operational surfaces that make the work useful after launch.

Heavy Equipment / Custom WordPress In beta / active rebuild

A website redesign backed by a real business application.

A high-impact redesign for a heavy-equipment dealer paired with custom WordPress functionality for inventory, manufacturer showroom content, customer workflows, quoting, rentals, purchases, and operational tools.

  • Custom WordPress
  • Inventory + showroom domains
  • Quote and rental workflows
  • Maintainable rebuild architecture

Inside the build

Public site, inventory paths, and transactional forms.

  • Inventory and manufacturer showroom content are treated as related but distinct business domains.
  • Quote, rental, and purchase screens show workflow depth beyond brochure-page content.
  • The current rebuild is structured around maintainable presentation and functionality boundaries.
Open beta site

AI Outreach SaaS / Next.js + React Live

An AI-powered outreach platform built as a product, not a marketing page.

A multi-channel outreach platform for visual campaign/funnel building, outbound SMS and voice workflows, AI voice/SMS agents, contact tracking, human handoff, and campaign attribution.

  • Modern application stack
  • Visual workflow builder
  • AI voice + SMS workflows
  • CRM and campaign operations

Inside the build

Campaign operations, workflow logic, and AI handoff surfaces.

  • Product UI centers on a visual workflow/funnel experience rather than static page content.
  • Operational views support contacts, tracking, logs, and communications workflows.
  • The application demonstrates full product thinking across acquisition, automation, attribution, and human handoff.
Open live site

Civic Technology / Laravel Live

A rideshare-style civic platform built around trust, eligibility, and operations.

A nonprofit transportation platform designed to connect eligible voters with volunteer drivers for free rides to polling locations, supported by onboarding, voter/eligibility workflows, driver operations, notifications, and map-based ride experiences.

  • Laravel implementation
  • Voter and driver workflows
  • Map-based ride interfaces
  • Operational dashboards

Inside the build

Eligibility, rides, volunteers, and operational oversight.

  • Rider and driver flows are built around trust, eligibility, route context, and status changes.
  • Dashboard screens make the operational side of the civic platform visible.
  • The project shows full-stack range outside WordPress while keeping public messaging clear.
Open live site

Ready to put this level of execution behind your next project?

Need a custom website, a more capable web system, or experienced development capacity behind your team? Let’s talk. Want to see more first? There are three more projects to explore.

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Healthcare Platform / WordPress Live

A healthcare platform designed for multiple audiences and operational roles.

A healthcare ecosystem combining patient/provider discovery with role-based experiences for providers, healthcare workers, and agencies, including onboarding, profiles, appointments, scheduling, and operational dashboards.

  • Multi-role architecture
  • Provider directory/search
  • Appointment workflows
  • Onboarding + dashboards

Inside the build

Patient discovery, provider tools, and role-specific workflows.

  • Distinct patient, provider, healthcare worker, and agency journeys show platform-level information architecture.
  • Directory, map, availability, appointment, and profile surfaces make the system depth visible.
  • Role-based dashboards and onboarding screens support operational use beyond the public homepage.
Open live site

Insurance + Wealth Management / Custom WordPress In beta

One brand, two distinct service divisions, one clear customer experience.

A custom WordPress redesign for an insurance and wealth-management firm, separating two complex service lines while keeping the brand, navigation, content structure, and customer journey coherent.

  • Dual service architecture
  • Quote/contact paths
  • Client-manageable WordPress
  • Professional services design

Inside the build

Two service lines with one coherent brand path.

  • Insurance and Wealth Management content are separated without fragmenting the overall brand.
  • Quote, contact, and service pages keep the visitor journey clear across complex offerings.
  • The design demonstrates a quieter professional-services range beside the application-heavy projects.
Open beta site

Event Experience / Custom WordPress Live

A content-rich event experience that stays manageable behind the scenes.

A custom WordPress event website built around speaker discovery, schedule, venue, pricing, vendors, and attendee information with structured content the organization can manage without rebuilding pages.

  • Event visual system
  • Speaker + schedule structure
  • Ticket-oriented content paths
  • Editorial design range

Inside the build

Structured event content without a flat brochure treatment.

  • Speaker, schedule, venue, vendor, and pricing content are organized for event discovery.
  • The visual system demonstrates editorial range alongside the more operational platform work.
  • WordPress content structure keeps event information maintainable as details change.
Open live site

How I work

You work directly with the person building it.

No account-manager relay. From discovery and architecture through design, development, QA, and launch, I stay directly involved in both the work and the decisions.

01

Discover the real problem

Clarify the business goal, the existing system, the constraints, and the risks before committing to a build path.

02

Design the experience and structure

Treat design, content, workflows, data, permissions, and integration points as one connected product.

03

Build in practical phases

Move from prototype to implementation with maintainable code, real content, and the operational surfaces needed behind the scenes.

04

Validate, launch, and support

Test the workflows that matter, make launch decisions visible, and stay available for the work that follows.

Portrait of Don Jewell, founder and senior developer behind Loud Sky Media.
Founder / Senior Developer Don Jewell
U.S. Air Force veteran F-16 Crew Chief background before building web systems full time.

Your senior developer

20+ years of experience. Still hands-on.

For more than two decades, I've designed and built websites, applications, and digital systems for organizations that needed more than an off-the-shelf solution. I founded Loud Sky Media in 2014 to stay close to both the strategy and the work - so clients aren't passed from sales to account management to junior production. I'm still the person thinking through the architecture, solving the difficult technical problems, and building the thing.

My work spans custom WordPress, full-stack web applications, APIs and integrations, automation, AI-enabled workflows, and the infrastructure that supports them. Before this career, I served in the U.S. Air Force as an F-16 Crew Chief - experience that reinforced the same habits I bring to technical work today: systems thinking, attention to detail, accountability, and troubleshooting under pressure.

That makes me equally comfortable owning a complex project directly or stepping behind an agency team when extra technical depth or capacity is needed.

20+ years Hands-on web design and development
2014 Loud Sky Media founded
  • Technical range Custom WordPress, web applications, and operational systems
  • Delivery model Direct client builds and white-label agency partner work
  • Systems thinking Interfaces, workflows, integrations, automation, and AI-enhanced tools
  • Marketplace proof Upwork Top Rated freelancer

Have a project to launch, a backlog to move, or client work that needs a developer?

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Tell me what you're trying to get done. If I'm a good fit, I'll explain how I'd approach it. If I'm not, I'll tell you that too.

Call 720-943-7529

Colorado Springs, Colorado · Working with clients and agencies remotely.

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